Gay rights film Pride dominated the British Independent Film Awards on Sunday (07Dec14), taking home three prizes, including Best Film. The movie, based on the true story of lesbian and gay activists in the U.K. during the 1980s, was feted with the coveted honour, as well as both supporting acting prizes for its stars Imelda Staunton and Andrew Scott.
Staunton's former Harry Potter co-star Brendan Gleeson and Gugu Mbatha-Raw were named the winners of the Best Actor and Actress prizes for their roles in Calvary and Belle, respectively.
Director Richard Linklater was on hand to accept the award for his acclaimed film Boyhood, which was named the Best International Independent Film, dedicating the honour to one of his inspirations, British moviemaker Lindsay Anderson.
Meanwhile, Yann Demange claimed Best Director for his feature film debut, Northern Ireland-set thriller '71, and Best Screenplay went to Frank duo Jon Ronson and Peter Straughan.
Special accolades were given to veteran actress Emma Thompson, who was presented with the prestigious Richard Harris Award to mark her contribution to the U.K. film industry, and The Imitation Game star Benedict Cumberbatch was given the Variety honour, which recognises an actor, director, writer or producer who has helped to focus the international spotlight on the U.K.

Troubled pop star Justin Bieber has been named the most overexposed celebrity of 2014 in a new poll by editors at Forbes Magazine. The Baby hitmaker tops the list of more than 6,600 celebrities, which has been put together using public opinion polling.
Bieber was cited as overexposed by 67 per cent of the respondents, due in part to his recent legal troubles, including his DUI arrest in January (14).
Bieber's inclusion on this year's (14) list is unusual, as it is usually dominated by U.S. reality TV stars, including Kim Kardashian, who placed second with a 61 per cent rating.
Her sisters Kourtney and Khloe rank ninth and 10th, respectively, with their mother/manager Kris Jenner tying for sixth place with former Jersey Shore star Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi at 55 per cent.
Coming in third is actress Lindsay Lohan with 59 per cent, controversial singer Miley Cyrus in fourth with 57 per cent, and child TV star Alana 'Honey Boo Boo' Thompson rounds out the top five at 56 per cent.

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For the bulk of every Rocky and Bullwinkle episode, moose and squirrel would engage in high concept escapades that satirized geopolitics, contemporary cinema, and the very fabrics of the human condition. With all of that to work with, there's no excuse for why the pair and their Soviet nemeses haven't gotten a decent movie adaptation. But the ingenious Mr. Peabody and his faithful boy Sherman are another story, intercut between Rocky and Bullwinkle segments to teach kids brief history lessons and toss in a nearly lethal dose of puns. Their stories and relationship were much simpler, which means that bringing their shtick to the big screen would entail a lot more invention — always risky when you're dealing with precious material.
For the most part, Mr. Peabody &amp; Sherman handles the regeneration of its heroes aptly, allowing for emotionally substance in their unique father-son relationship and all the difficulties inherent therein. The story is no subtle metaphor for the difficulties surrounding gay adoption, with society decreeing that a dog, no matter how hyper-intelligent, cannot be a suitable father. The central plot has Peabody hosting a party for a disapproving child services agent and the parents of a young girl with whom 7-year-old Sherman had a schoolyard spat, all in order to prove himself a suitable dad. Of course, the WABAC comes into play when the tots take it for a spin, forcing Peabody to rush to their rescue.
Getting down to personals, we also see the left brain-heavy Peabody struggle with being father Sherman deserves. The bulk of the emotional marks are hit as we learn just how much Peabody cares for Sherman, and just how hard it has been to accept that his only family is growing up and changing.
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But more successful than the new is the film's handling of the old — the material that Peabody and Sherman purists will adore. They travel back in time via the WABAC Machine to Ancient Egypt, the Renaissance, and the Trojan War, and 18th Century France, explaining the cultural backdrop and historical significance of the settings and characters they happen upon, all with that irreverent (but no longer racist) flare that the old cartoons enjoyed. And oh... the puns.
Mr. Peabody &amp; Sherman is a f**king treasure trove of some of the most amazingly bad puns in recent cinema. This effort alone will leave you in awe.
The film does unravel in its final act, bringing the science-fiction of time travel a little too close to the forefront and dropping the ball on a good deal of its emotional groundwork. What seemed to be substantial building blocks do not pay off in the way we might, as scholars of animated family cinema, have anticipated, leaving the movie with an unfinished feeling.
But all in all, it's a bright, compassionate, reasonably educational, and occasionally funny if not altogether worthy tribute to an old favorite. And since we don't have our own WABAC machine to return to a time of regularly scheduled Peabody and Sherman cartoons, this will do okay for now.
If nothing else, it's worth your time for the puns.
3/5
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Emma Thompson has broken her silence on her one-time love rival Helena Bonham Carter, insisting she forgives the actress for embarking on an affair with her ex-husband Kenneth Branagh. The actor/director enjoyed a fling with Bonham Carter during their time filming 1994's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the romance led to the end of Branagh's six-year union to Thompson in 1995.
The Love Actually actress has remained quiet on the matter for almost two decades, but she now admits there is no bad feeling between her and Bonham Carter.
Speaking to Britain's The Sunday Times Style magazine, she says, "That is... blood under the bridge. You can't hold on to anything like that, I just think... pfft. It's pointless. I haven't got the energy for it. Helena and I made our peace years and years ago."
And Thompson jokes that her similarities to the younger star may have sparked Branagh's interest in Bonham Carter: "Oh, we are (similar). Being slightly mad and a bit fashion-challenged. Perhaps that's why Ken loved us both? She's a wonderful woman, Helena."
The trio have since appeared together in the Harry Potter film franchise.
Thompson is now married to Greg Wise, while Bonham Carter has two children with director Tim Burton. Branagh, who dated Bonham Carter for several years after his divorce, is now wed to art director Lindsay Brunnock.

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It seems a bit odd to take on a movie review of Courtney Solomon's Getaway, as only in the loosest terms is Getaway actually a movie. We begin without questions — other than a vague and frustrating "What the hell is going on?" — and end without answers, watching Ethan Hawke drive his car into things (and people) for the hour and a half in between. We learn very little along the way, probed to engage in the mystery of the journey. But we don't, because there's no reason to.
There's not a single reason to wonder about any of the things that happen to Hawke's former racecar driver/reformed criminal — forced to carry out a series of felonious commands by a mysterious stranger who is holding his wife hostage — because there doesn't seem to be a single ounce of thought poured into him beyond what he see. We learn, via exposition delivered by him to gun-toting computer whiz Selena Gomez, that he "did some bad things" before meeting the love of his life and deciding to put that all behind him. Then, we stop learning. We stop thinking. We start crashing into police cars and Christmas trees and power plants.
Why is Selena Gomez along for the ride? Well, the beginnings of her involvement are defensible: Hawke is carrying out his slew of vehicular crimes in a stolen car. It's her car. And she's on a rampage to get it back. But unaware of what she's getting herself into, Gomez confronts an idling Hawke with a gun, is yanked into the automobile, and forced to sit shotgun while the rest of the driver's "assignments" are carried out. But her willingness to stick by Hawke after hearing his story is ludicrous. Their immediate bickering falls closer to catty sexual tension than it does to genuine derision and fear (you know, the sort of feelings you'd have for someone who held you up or forced you into accessorizing a buffet of life-threatening crimes).
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The "gradual" reversal of their relationship is treated like something we should root for. But with so little meat packed into either character, the interwoven scenes of Hawke and Gomez warming up to each other and becoming a team in the quest to save the former's wife serve more than anything else as a breather from all the grotesque, impatient, deliberately unappealing scenes of city wreckage.
And as far as consolidating the mystery, the film isn't interested in that either, as evidenced by its final moments. Instead of pressing focus on the answers to whatever questions we may have, the movie's ultimate reveal is so weak, unsubstantial, and entirely disconnected to the story entirely, that it seems almost offensive to whatever semblance of a film might exist here to go out on this note. Offensive to the idea of film and story in general, as a matter of fact. But Getaway isn't concerned with these notions. Not with story, character, logic, or humanity. It just wants to show us a bunch of car crashes and explosions. So you'd think it might have at least made those look a little better.
1/5
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Despite Adam Levine's poor showing on Saturday Night Live in January (who else was on a payphone waiting to call Time Warner to tell them to shut the horrible episode down?), the sketch comedy series is continuing to bank on musicians' comedy skills. But it's likely SNL is hoping Saturday's host and musical guest, Justin Bieber, moves less like Levine, and instead lives on the same planet as this season's surprisingly apt host, Bruno Mars.
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So far, we have little reason to think Bieber will go belly-up Saturday — after all, the teen sensation already scored in a sketch with Tina Fey when he served as musical guest in 2010, and a 2011 digital short spoofing The Roommate. But the singer is so reviled by some music lovers, that he has the most difficult hosting task since Lindsay Lohan tried to forge a comeback last season: Bieber has to make people like him.
SNL has done just that for some musicians in the past — both Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus proved to be charming and self-effacing on the late-night sketch show, despite their public image problems. But neither have spent their entire career in the industry as a mop-topped punchline like Bieber.
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But after spending years as the subject of punchlines, will he be able to deliver them? Talk about Bieber's hosting debut here, and be sure to return Sunday to read our full recap of Bieber's episode!
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While the water cooler scenes from tonight's Justified are A, the suicide of the FBI agent, and B, the brutal nightmare-inducing snakebite incident, there's a lot more trouble brewing for both Raylan and Boyd in Harlan County. Both men are embroiled in professional dramas that threaten their well-being (and livelihood, in Boyd's case), but neither has any clue that their biggest problems may stem from their closest allies — Rachel is beginning to seriously resent Raylan for getting away with anything and everything, and Johnny Crowder will possibly align with proven jackrabbit Wynn Duffy to take out Boyd. That's the thing with snakes — the most poisonous ones are always the least expected. Though, in Rachel's case, the venom is pretty understandable.
Raylan is working on a case that could be a career-maker for Rachel, but — as I noted last week, she was the only one left out of the boys' club expedition to investigate. This week, yet again, Raylan and Tim were the ones sent to have a little heart-to-heart with Drew Thompson's widow, Eve. Raylan probably needed the distraction, as his never-ending female troubles — his sleepover buddy is actually an ex-thief with a Hulk-like ex-con ex-husband — continued this week, when Hulk challenged him to a high noon showdown (after some serious prodding). Hulk had fled Florida (and parole) to pick up his wifey, so Raylan did what he always does: gave him a few hours to pack up and leave town, or stay and fight. (Aside: This is why I completely understand why any marshal working with Raylan would hate him. He's like a drunk, cowboy Carrie Matheson who always gets the job done on luck/instinct, but abides by no rules but his own. When you get written up for chewing gum on the job while a Raylan shows up at 11 and leaves at 3, well, that'd be enough to make anyone consider a call to HR.)
What's even worse on the Rachel end is that Raylan pays her no mind: She was disciplined by Art for not calling for backup when reprimanding a fugitive, and all Raylan did was shrug and try to steer the conversation back to his Drew Thompson case. "How many times has Wyatt Earp put himself in positions like that and worse, and how many reprimands have you written him?" Rachel asked Art, who fired back with a 'Raylan's a lost cause' argument, and put his attention back on Raylan.
But, anywho, that was not the main action of the episode (though I think it will be a major factor moving forward). Raylan learned that Drew Thompson was a witness in a sealed federal witness warrant. What did he witness? Why, the murder of a government informant, of course! The visit with Eve — a "certified spiritualist" who is actually quite skilled at her job— quickly went awry. An FBI agent showed up and Eve (clearly not innocent) sneaked out of the bathroom window, only to be kidnapped by a mysterious thug. So, someone really, really doesn't want anyone to know about Drew Thompson. The FBI agent ended up being embroiled in the same scandal as Drew and Eve, so he, you know, shot himself after telling Raylan where Eve was being held. Which might actually be a good thing, because if he knew more than Eve — who got the living daylights beaten out of her — his death would most likely have been slow and painful.
Here's what Eve knew: Way back when, Drew told her that she'd soon hear that he was dead — and for all intents and purposes, he would be. The investigators knew that part. What they didn't know was what she had purposefully hidden: Drew saw Theo Tonin (Quarles' vicious adoptive father) murder a government informant. And since the FBI agent likely told Theo everything he knew, Drew Thompson was likely royally f***ed.
On Boyd's end, we learned that Cassie (True Blood's Lindsay Pulsipher, who is much, much better in this role) is the one running the freakshow Church, to the point where she had been lying to her brother about the snakes they were using being poisonous — she'd been milking them the whole time to keep him safe. Cassie herself is a snake-like little creature: She slithers in and out of the scene as needed, always disguising her true colors until she really needs to pounce. Unfortunately for Boyd (or, most accurately, Boyd's henchman Jimmy) she didn't "bite" when Boyd offered her a bundle of cash to leave town. As a strike back, Boyd sent Jimmy and his war buddy Colt to poke around in the dead of night, leading to the aforementioned horrific snakebite scene where Jimmy ended up worse than those doomed passengers on the plane.
However, Jimmy's bad luck ended up being Boyd's good fortune: If all of those biblical snakes had been poisonous, he would have died by the time their shady redneck mob doctor arrived. He was alive (just horribly disfigured) at the end of the show, meaning the snakes Billy held up at mass to prove the power of God was in him were not, in fact, poisonous.
The thing is, Billy himself didn't know this, and he felt horribly betrayed when he learned of his sister's deception — the poor kid actually thought he was a prophet of the good Lord. Just like with Raylan and Boyd and their trusted colleagues, there is major trouble brewing in the Billy/Cassie relationship. Her intentions may have been pure — she didn't want her brother to die — but their arc ended with Billy being bit by a poisonous snake whilst trying to prove that the power of God was still in him (in front of his congregation, natch). Billy isn't a greedy, false prophet — he actually thought he was some sort of redneck messiah. The question is: where does he go from here? If he lives (and I'm assuming he will), he'll have some major life changes to make, and something tells me he won't be leaving Harlan County anytime soon.
But that's not even the biggest snake in the grass: It's not exactly news that Johnny Crowder wants Boyd dead, but teaming up with Wynn Duffy to do it will definitely have disastrous consequences in one way or another. Johnny's feelings toward Boyd are sort of like Rachel's toward Raylan, but on crack (or, on this show, Oxy). Yes, he's resentful because of his injury (that was caused by Bo), but it's more about the fact that Boyd took over his father's criminal empire while Johnny — who stood by Bo while Boyd blew things up — was overlooked. Just like Rachel, who is the more skilled (technically speaking) marshal, is always passed over by Art in favor of Raylan.
Oh, and as for Hulk and his bride — they disappeared. Was it willingly, on her end? We don't know, but from the looks of her ruined bedroom, my money is on no.
Which character will feel the disastrous consequences of a jealous coworker first — Raylan, or Boyd? Will Raylan get his girlfriend back? Do we care?
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The Liz &amp; Dick TV movie aired on U.S. network Lifetime on Sunday night (25Nov12), and came under fire from critics, who panned Lohan's portrayal of the screen legend.
Reports suggested the bad reviews were not the Mean Girls star's only problem, with bosses at Lifetime said to be planning to file suit against her for violating a clause in her contract over her June (12) car collision.
The star's Porsche was involved in a smash in California, which allegedly meant Lohan broke an agreement banning her from driving or travelling in any vehicle other than the chauffeured car provided by TV bosses.
However, Lifetime representatives insist Lohan's contract was not with them but with Larry Thompson Productions - and the producer has shot down speculation he is set to sue.
Thompson tells E! Online, "Larry Thompson Productions has no plans, nor has ever had any plans, to sue our leading lady, Lindsay Lohan, for breach of contract."

Larry Thompson took a chance on Lohan and hired her to play screen icon Elizabeth Taylor in much-anticipated TV drama Liz &amp; Dick - which chronicles the late actress' tumultuous relationship with Richard Burton.
The Mean Girls star's acting comeback followed years of legal troubles and bad press, and Thompson confesses her time on the set was just as dramatic as the script - Lohan was involved in a car crash on her way to the set in June (12) and she collapsed from exhaustion in between takes.
In a press conference promoting the new film on Wednesday (14Nov12), the producer told reporters, "Producing a movie with Lindsay is not for the faint of heart. I turned 50 shades of white actually during the production.
"We had serious challenges to deal with due to her probation and her history. Therefore, we had to make a deal where there were pages and pages of ‘what if' clauses... It was about, ‘What if there is a car accident? What if there is a violation of her probation (and she's) incarcerated?' Those ‘what ifs' were plenty.
"She might be the most insured actress who ever walked on a soundstage. We tried to insure ourselves against things that could and, in fact, did happen. I was financially at risk myself. It was a challenge."
However, the executive insists his risk on Lohan paid off: "Overall, my gosh, relative to the performance we got and the movie we were able to make because of her, the pain was worth the pleasure. And the audience is going to benefit from the risk we took and the reward that was gained."

It is important to separate a creative force from his or her literary embodiments. Hunter S. Thompson is not Raul Duke, Jack Kerouac is not Sal Paradise, and Lena Dunham is not her Girls character Hannah Horvath … although, these characters have got to come from somewhere.
Dunham seems to be channeling her inner-Horvath in her development of a new book: Not That Kind of a Girl, which the New York Post deems reminiscent of the late Helen Gurley Brown’s 1962 advice book Sex and the Single Girl. With the non-fiction book, Gurley Brown took strides in applying ambition and empowerment to female bachelorhood and introduced new attitudes regarding female sexuality. You might not be able to call Gurley Brown the sole purveyor of the nation's shift in the way people viewed sex and gender, but she certainly played a role. To borrow a phrase from Hannah, she was "a voice of a generation."
And this is what Dunham herself seems to be striving to do with her new book, which she is presently shopping to publishers and is estimated to go for no less than $1 million. Following an auction on Friday, Dunham plans to meet with the five highest bidders to make the choice of who will handle the publication of Not That Kind of a Girl.
With Girls, Dunham has already staked her claim on the representation of her demographic. Dunham has already identified herself as one of today's most invaluable active young artists, helping to create and share new ideas about new things and new people in new ways. And Not That Kind of a Girl should only further these efforts. In yet another medium is Dunham bound to provoke a broadening of fans' perspectives on the themes of youth, womanhood, and life in general. With her fresh, honest, liberating take on the world, Dunham's first book should breed important ideas. She is definitely a voice of this generation, and one that needs to be heard.
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